Do you mean that it’s streaming on HBO Max, or that it was a steaming pile of **** on HBO Max?
Drag Me to Hell 2009 Sam Raimi produced and directed
Peacock
Highly Rated on Rotten Tomatoes
It is too extreme for me. There’s no comedy or silliness to break the extreme tension.
Different strokes for different folks.
A lot of people like the movie
The ending completely ruined the movie for me. Viewers expect characters to die in horror and thriller films. But, there’s usually one gutsy character that’s goes through all the misery and survives.
Goes back to Texas Chainsaw, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, Evil Dead, and Child’s Play. One bloodied and deeply traumatized character fights their way through and sets up a sequel. 
Why would I watch Drag Me to Hell again? Knowing how pointless it is for the character to fight back?
Eh, Robin and Marian with Sean Connery and Audrey Hepburn is a pretty solid post-adventure Robin Hood. It’s flawed - the timeline for one doesn’t work if you know anything about Richard I. Some might also find it a bit slow. But I always enjoyed it for what it was.
Drag Me To Hell has one of the “utterly trivial things that take me out of the film” moments right at the end, where I went “Wait a minute - that train is sailing through Union Station along a passenger platform at full speed”. I mean, sure, demons, Hell, gypsy curses, yadda yadda yadda, but health and safety violations are no joke.
And that’s assuming Union Station isn’t a terminus and that train didn’t just plow through the buffers like at the ending of Silver Streak.
For me it was the loan extension. No responsible bank officer would grant a 3rd extension under the circumstances shown in the Drag Me to Hell movie.
It’s trival. But Raimi could have used better rising action (character wants a promotion) and a stronger critical decision (reject the loan extension) to base his narrative.
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Hokum (2026)
I watched this on a plane so not the best viewing environment. A fair to middling ghost story with a great performance by Adam Scott. My only gripe is the lame off-ramp for viewers who choose to think there wasn’t anything supernatural going on.
As you say, “different strokes” and all that. I am surprised that you didn’t see any comedy or silliness in it. I interpret it as dark comedy, almost a spoof of the genre. Indeed, the ending itself plays with the trope of the main character getting killed in the end, just when you think they finally conquered big bad.
Highest highs and lowest lows this week.
Sunday we saw You Can See Everything, the Nathan Fielder/Oppenheim documentary about disgraced Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes.
My full report is in the dedicated thread. This is one of the best films I have ever seen. Saw it Sunday and still can’t stop thinking about it. You go in expecting a cat and mouse between a notorious bullshitter and a sociopath, and what happens is…I’m still not sure what happens. I’m not even sure Fielder knows what happened. Absolutely wild ride.
Followed by Monday movie night and the atrocious Japanese horror movie Re/Member (because they have to find body parts, get it?) Some teenagers are trapped in a horror time loop where they die horribly every night until they find the body parts of a missing girl. They are surprisingly chill about it. The best part of the film is its title honestly. It was nice to make fun of, but I’m not sure I’m letting Spouse Weasel pick again any time soon.
I’m actually with you 100% on that. I was like, wait, so some peon at a bank or whatever, vying for lower management, declines to grant an extension on a loan that no reasonable fiduciary would ever grant, and that’s the original sin that damns her to hell? So I guess the idea is that this elderly romani woman gets to curse anyone she doesn’t like to hell? And I’m supposed to be cool with that? Like, if I am in line ahead of her at the donut shop, and I get the last blueberry donut that she really wanted, she gets to damn me to hell and I’m just stuck with it unless I can do a kind of “seven days… pass it on” to someone else?
Believe me, I got that it was trying to be funny. It just… wasn’t. Or at least not funny enough to overcome the incredibly stupid inciting incident.
Yeah, that bothered me too but I just assumed that the elderly Romani woman was an evil petty vindictive shit. Still - choose your donuts wisely.
That old woman had the ultimate gross out. Removing her slimy false teeth and puting them on a napkin was worse than all the gore in Evil Dead.
The slime was dripping off the dentures and onto the napkin. 
//shudder//
I’m hearing a chance that it becomes the first documentary to win Best Picture at the Oscars.
That would be pretty impressive.
I think if it’s even nominated for Best Picture, that would be a first.
Apparently many do like this movie, but my wife and I saw it yesterday and for it was just meh. A ‘decently good, kind of OK’ movie. She agreed.
We saw this before it opened! The local theater chain has “Classified” movies on most Mondays. It’s an upcoming release, and you have no idea what you’re seeing beforehand (well, a little idea. They give you the rating, and if it’s a horror movie, it’s “Terrified”). I enjoyed the movie and it was a great one to see on the big screen. 6/10 or so. Won’t bother streaming it for the small screen.
Speaking of which, last night’s movie was The Only Living Pickpocket In New York, staring John Turturro, Giacomo Esposito, Steve Buscemi. Turturro plays an old pickpocket who one night… robs the wrong car.
As you can tell from the cast, a lot of good acting. Buscemi shows that he doesn’t have to over-act every role! Esposito does a great understated job as an old cop. Turturro was perfect in his role. During the show, I thought the plot was kind of reminiscent of The Sting. I’m not going to elaborate. There was, to me, a very touching scene towards the end of the movie where he tries to connect with his estranged daughter. Overall, a very good movie. I’d give it 8/10. I’d definitely recommend it.
Tenzing: a biopic of Tenzing Norgay on Apple+. Not bad, if a bit clunky. Basically a story about his rise to fame as one of the first two people to summit Everest. One thing that always takes me out of films like this is when people are shown improperly dressed for the conditions they are in. I know that the actors want their faces seen, but on Everest in a snow storm the lack of gloves and ear protection is jarring.
We enjoyed Tenzing pretty well.
La LLorana A Guatemalan production, not to be confused with the American movie The Curse of La Llorana. It’s a slow burner, and categorized as horror. There is no gore, nor any jump scares, but it is horrific, due to its subject matter. It focuses on a retired General who was one of the main figures who orchestrated the genocide of native Mayan population in Guatemala in the 1980s. It’s incredibly atmospheric and beautifully shot. It is subtitled, and some Spanish speakers claim the translation is sub par, but message and emotions comes through clearly. I watched it on Shudder but I think I read it is available on Prime. Highly recommend.
Is it this one?
That’s it